2012/1/9 S Ahmed <sahmed1...@gmail.com>: > Well the readme said it may fail on mac osx because it tries to write to > /usr/share/java to store the libraries etc.
Eh, which readme? It is a bad idea to let them been written to /usr/share/java. That is just a default value. You should really reconfigure it to use some other place (as documented in BUILDING.txt). You should not run any random things with "sudo", unless you understand the consequences. > > When I ran ant, the build didn't work, running sudo allowed it continue > (but from now on running just ant w/o sudo is fine, I guess it was just > initially to write to that folder). > > Anyhow, I'll try the svn then thanks. > > On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Konstantin Kolinko > <knst.koli...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> 2012/1/9 S Ahmed <sahmed1...@gmail.com>: >> > 2. sudo ant >> >> Just curious regarding the above command: you do not need root rights >> to build Tomcat! >> >> Actually you should never be using root rights when building, testing >> and using Tomcat. >> >> (The only exception is running it with jsvc service wrapper). >> >> http://xkcd.com/149/ Best regards, Konstantin Kolinko --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
